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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169503 | Image pickup apparatus and control method for selecting a flicker control method It is determined whether or not flicker has occurred in an image signal obtained on the basis of an output signal of an image pickup element. If it is determined that flicker has occurred, a flicker correction method is selected according to a gain value set in the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8115828 | Image processing apparatus, flicker reduction method, imaging apparatus, and flicker reduction program An image processing apparatus includes: an integrating unit integrating an input image signal over a time interval equal to one horizontal period or longer; a normalizing unit normalizing an integrated value obtained by the integrating unit, or a difference value in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8040393 | Image-pickup signal processor and method of detecting flicker A plurality of flicker detection frames are formed by dividing an image into a plurality of frames. A flicker detection circuit performs detection of luminance data for each of the flicker detection frames. The differences between the luminance data of the preceding... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031237 | Exposure control method, exposure control apparatus and image pickup apparatus A technique of acquiring a width obtaining an appropriate exposure with minimum restrictions, while accurately correcting flickering is provided. An exposure control method includes integrating a video signal obtained by shooting a subject by means of a CMOS imaging... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7796164 | Signal reading apparatus and test apparatus There is provided a signal reading apparatus that reads an output signal from a solid-state image sensing device. The apparatus includes a plurality of measuring means that respectively measures pixel data included in the output signal from the solid-state image sen... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7679655 | Image-data processing apparatus, image-data processing method, and imaging system for flicker correction An image-data processing apparatus corrects flicker in each image-data frame. The apparatus includes a threshold generator that generates a threshold; an integrator that integrates values of extracted pixel data of a selected range in each frame on the basis of the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675552 | Flicker correction method and device, and imaging device Even in case the shutter speed is high, a flicker can be corrected accurately. A flicker correction method in which a flicker is corrected by predicting, from a present input frame image, a flicker component in an image of a next frame and adding a correction value ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7663669 | Imaging apparatus including an XY-address-scanning imaging device, imaging method, and recording medium An imaging apparatus includes an integrating unit to integrate pixel values of pixels in each of a plurality of areas of an image; a holding unit to hold integration values generated by the integrating unit; an operating unit to operate a waveform of a differential ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656437 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An apparatus and a method for efficiently executing correction of false color, such as purple fringe, caused by chromatic aberration and for generating and outputting high-quality image data are provided. A white-saturated pixel is detected from image data, a false-... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7639285 | Flicker reduction method, flicker reduction circuit and image pickup apparatus It is now possible to correct flicker without the risk of correcting flicker by error if a moving subject exists in the scene by using values detected in the past in order to prevent degradation of image quality from taking place. The integral value obtained by inte... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7489347 | Method and circuit for detecting flicker noise A flicker noise detecting method that shortens the time for detecting flicker noise. The method sets two of a plurality of horizontal lines forming a frame as average brightness calculation regions that are separated from each other by the predetermined number of th... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7411615 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion units for picking up an image of an object; and a filter, arranged on the image pickup unit, for reducing a light amount that causes a flicker. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7397503 | Systems and methods for reducing artifacts caused by illuminant flicker Methods for reducing artifacts caused by illuminant flicker are provided. One such method comprises: providing pixel circuits; and operating the pixel circuits in a bi-directional mode during which first information corresponding to a scene is acquired in forward ro... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7312819 | Robust camera motion analysis for home video A robust camera motion analysis method is described. In an implementation, a method includes analyzing video having sequential frames to determine one or more camera motions that occurred when sequential frames of the video were captured. The one or more camera moti... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313278 | Content generation, extraction and distribution of image region segments from video images The present invention provides methods for extracting an image region segment from a video image, a system for extracting an image region segment, a program for extracting an image region segment, a method for distributing an extracted video image, and a method for ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307657 | Video signal processing method and device for processing luminance signal In a video signal processing method of processing a luminance signal of a video signal generated by causing a CCD to receive light transmitted through color filters, a control signal yf1 is generated by calculating Cy/Y using a complementary color signal Cy a... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298401 | Method and apparatus for removing flicker from images Method and apparatus for removing image artifacts from an image of a scene illuminated by a periodically varying light source such as a fluorescent light source. The image is represented by image data, and the method has the steps of determining a flicker function a... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289144 | Flicker detection apparatus, a flicker correction apparatus, an image-pickup apparatus, a flicker detection program and a flicker correction program A flicker detection apparatus takes in a plurality of images having different shutter times from the image sensing element and judges whether flicker occurs or not based on a variation of flicker components extracted from these images so that the accuracy of flicker... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280135 | Pixel array, image sensor having the pixel array and method for removing flicker noise of the image sensor There are provided a pixel array capable of detecting and removing a flicker noise, an image sensor employing the pixel array and an automatic flicker noise detecting method capable of effectively detecting and removing the flicker noise of the image sensor. For the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277127 | Imager flicker compensation systems and methods A method of capturing an image of a scene includes providing an imaging device having an array of pixels. Each pixel is configured to provide a pixel output. The method also includes determining a frequency of light produced by a light source illuminating the scene ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7248289 | Image-pickup signal processor and method of detecting flicker A plurality of flicker detection frames are formed by dividing an image into a plurality of frames. A flicker detection circuit performs detection of luminance data for each of the flicker detection frames. The differences between the luminance data of the preceding... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7151563 | Digital camera and white balance adjusting method A digital camera has an adjustment value creating part configured to create an adjustment value for adjusting a white balance of an image, and an adjusting part configured to adjust the white balance of the image based on an adjustment value output from the adjustme... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7088388 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a sensor for highlights and for processing highlights A method and apparatus for calibrating a sensor for highlights and for processing highlights is described. In an embodiment, a method includes identifying highlight regions in an image of a scene. The method further includes calculating flare intensity values for th... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081921 | Method and apparatus for processing front end signal for image sensor A front end signal processing method and apparatus for processing a signal from an image sensor are provided for readily clamping a black level, improving the manufacturing yield, and reducing the power consumption. A luminance detector/digitizer receives a sensor o... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7072948 | Information retrieval system using an internet multiplexer to focus user selection The invention provides a method and system for receiving incoming information from multiple information sources, both interactive and passive, and for engagingly presenting that information to a recipient on a presentation interface. The system includes a “backgro... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7034870 | Image pickup apparatus with reduced flicker and automatic level adjusting method of the same An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device, an accumulating section, first and second imaging parameter setting sections, a calculating section, a flicker detecting section, and a switching section. The accumulating section calculates a projecti... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031516 | Edge achromatization circuit and method An edge achromatization circuit and method is disclosed wherein, in digital camera signal processing, a signal having a linear characteristic before γ correction is performed to suppress a color component of an edge portion while keeping a luminance. The edge achro... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7015976 | Automatic panning of digital content while zoomed The digital television system that has a zoom module. When the digital television system is in a zoom mode, the zoom module receives a full frame, and displays the zoom frame that includes only a portion of the full frame. The zoom module determines a relationship b... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6992709 | Method and apparatus for high-speed broadband illuminant discrimination An apparatus for determining a type of an illuminant including a spectrum diffraction unit and a sensor coupled to the spectrum diffraction unit. An illuminant discrimination unit is coupled to the sensor and configured to receive a set of signals representative of ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6947089 | Image pickup apparatus For preventing the blooming phenomenon, there is provided an image pickup apparatus comprising a solid-state image pickup device adapted for a first readout method in which plural pixels are added to be read and a second readout method in which plural pixels are not... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6885394 | Method and apparatus for outputting multi-band image There is provided a method outputting multi-band image data, including the steps of obtaining a spectral waveform per pixel of an image photographed by a multi-band camera; performing conversion of the thus obtained spectral waveform per pixel into control signals c... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6791606 | Auto white balancing apparatus and method An auto white balancing apparatus includes a block split circuit for splitting an image into a plurality of blocks; a representative color calculating circuit which for each split block, derives a representative color of each block on the basis of pixel values withi... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6721000 | Adaptive pixel-level color enhancement for a digital camera An adaptive color enhancer applies different scale factors to different pixels in a digital image. More color enhancement occurs for bright pixels and for dim pixels than for average-intensity pixels. Also, more color enhancement is applied to the more colorful pixe... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6707491 | Method of correcting white balance in video camera A method of correcting white balance in a video camera is provided, which controls the red gain and blue gain of a captured image signal to allow the average of color difference signals of a picture, the method including the steps of (a) dividing the captured image ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6670987 | Chrominance signal processing circuit, chrominance signal processing method and camera using them In white balance adjustment adopting a feedback control technique, after white balance has been established at a certain color temperature, a lead-in limiting frame may be shifted following the establishment of the white balance, causing an incorrect oper... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6661453 | Image input apparatus and method An image input apparatus. A detection section detects a change cycle of an intensity of an external light inputted to a camera. A timing control section synchronizes the change cycle of the intensity of the external light with a plurality of input timings... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6545710 | Image pick-up apparatus An image pick-up apparatus includes: an image sensing section which photoelectrically converts light from an object into an electrical output having a logarithmic function in relation to an amount of the light to produce image data regarding a light image... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6281932 | Image pickup apparatus having a complementary color-to-primary color conversion matrix Color separating characteristics which are preferable in case of obtaining the primary color components are obtained from an image pickup signal by using a color separation matrix. A luminance signal is obtained by a luminance signal formation processing ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6211912 | Method for detecting camera-motion induced scene changes A method for determining camera-induced scene changes in a sequence of visual information-bearing frames which constitute a single shot first determines camera-induced motion between each of a plurality of pairs frames within a single camera shot. The cam... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6160579 | Image processing apparatus and method In converting image sensing data into image data, a plurality of image sensing data meeting a predetermined condition are processed as a group of image sensing data. An image reproduction parameter is obtained from this image sensing data group, and each ... | 12/12/2000 |
